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Caption: "Colonades [sic] - San Diego Exposition," 1935.
Date: 1935
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No caption. Commemorative stamp celebrating the upcoming Golden Gate International Exposition, c. 1938. The Exposition, which ran from February through October in 1939 and May to September in 1940, celebrated the completion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (1936) and the Golden Gate Bridge (1937). More than ten million people attended in 1939, while an additional five million visited in 1940. The Exposition was held on an artificial island created by dredging more than 19 million cubic yards of material from the bottom of the bay. The federal government completed this dredging and fill, intending for the site, called Treasure Island, to become a municipal airport after the exposition. However, the advent of World War II resulted in the U.S. Navy taking over the site, holding it until for military purposes until 1997.
Date: 1938
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Caption: "Ordnance Corps," c. 1905. A group photograph of the Ordnance Corps at the Benicia Arsenal. The broad mission of the Ordnance Corps was to supply combat weapons and ammunition to U.S. Army forces on the west coast of the United States.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "State of California - Department of Agriculture Border Inspection Station - Dorris." Design by Earl W. Hampton; drawing by Alfred Eichler. Built in 1936. Project for Department of Agriculture.
Date: 1935
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Caption: "East River & Brooklyn Bridge N.Y," c. 1925. Three boats on the East River passing beneath the Manhattan Bridge. The photograph was taken from the Brooklyn Bridge (which is not seen in the photo). See also 96-07-08-alb09-199.
Date: 1925
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Caption: "Benicia Arsenal Avenue," c. 1905, Benicia, California. William McCarthy began his career as an inspector of armaments for the U.S. War Department at the Benicia Arsenal in 1903. The arsenal was established in 1851 as the first Ordnance Supply Depot in the West, from which it supplied and supported U.S. troops, from the Civil War through WWII and the Korean War. It was deactivated in 1963.
Date: 1905
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Caption: "Street Scene -- Los Angeles," c. 1910. Street-level view of an unidentified busy street in Los Angeles.
Date: 1910